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Did the Brontosaurus really exist?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
The Duck, Duck, Pig, Yak and Dino Bones
Mallard ducks share a genus, so they sleep in one bed together. They each get their very own custom pillow. Our Mallard duck here is called Anasplatierinkos. So why do we use duck for a duck and pig for a pig and yak for a yak? Well, common names like duck and pig are what humans called animals for thousands of years. But the time we started finding dino bones though, it was cool to use scientific names, so that's what we call those dinos.
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